Help, anemone looking weird

stevey8704 Aug 2009

I purchased a BTA a few days ago and it seems to be doing great. Eating krills and today it's very big. Last night I noticed one small green chromis disappeared and can't find it this morning either and the BTA looks bigger than before. Is it possible for BTA to kill and eat small live fish?

I had this problem of small fish disappearing before but I found it in back chamber. This time I really can't find it.

Like ThisMillerLite04 Aug 2009

most definitely..if the chromis wandered too close the BTA then most likely its been digested already**also check around on the floor to make sure the fish didnt jump. I dont assume chromis are big jumpers but any fish can jump I guess. Some people feed their BTA small silver sides so its possible your chromis became lunch.
 
BTA's do not have a powerful sting and just in my opinion I do not think a bta took a healthy chromis. ive watch multiple fish swim into my bta and brush up against him without the slightest struggle swam away unscathed. a few fish ive witnessed swimming into my BTA are;
My Flame Angel - very frequently brushes up against the anemone as he likes to swim circles around the rock the anemone is attached to. he also picks at the rockwork underneath the anemone when the anemone is fully inflated. never once has seem bothered by the sting.
Royal gramma - ive watched it swim into it on two occasions once when I first introduced him into the tank and again when I was cleaning the glass with the magnet. he very easily got out of the anemone and showed no signs of being injured
Firefish - I actually watched this one happen last night his den is right next to the anemone so if I am cleaning the tank or putting my arms in the tank he darts in, well I was grabbing some shrimp molt out of the tank and he bolted to his den missing it by 3 or 4 inches and straight into the BTA. once again it easily moved out of the anemone and was perfectly fine from there on.

so just to reiterate that this is all just my opinion based on first hand experience that BTA's stings are not powerful enough to be very predatory in nature. I have read before that BTA's in the wild seldom eat fish mostly just photosynthesize their food and on occasion catch small solid particles of various food within the water column.Nutrients are generally obtained by filter feeding using its sweeping tentacles, or through wastes and debris cleaned from the surface of its partner clownfish
I will try searching tonight when I get off work and see if I can find where I read that to back up my opinion.
 
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Irishdolphin said:
Oh dear, here we go again!
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My thoughts exactly.

As for the OP - you've got a sick nem, I'd be surprised if he has 48 hours left. The best thing at this point is to not change anything. Keep the tank STABLE, and pray for his recovery.

As soon as you see any white milky junk coming out, or it looks like a puddle of stringy mucus: death is imminent. Pull it soon after that.
 
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This is how it is looking now
 
I've been watching this thread and find it very interesting. It's a lot darker than my nem which I got from a lfs and it was already bleached, however, I've been feeding him over the last couple of weeks as his colour is now coming back. I will cut down the feeding and then stop feeding him at all as the consensus of this thread says.
 
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I don't know guys but I think she's liking the flow which I turn up a notch and now I can even see some green tentacles on the bottom and some bubble tips on top, here's still hope
 
hotelbravo said:
BTA's do not have a powerful sting and just in my opinion I do not think a bta took a healthy chromis. ive watch multiple fish swim into my bta and brush up against him without the slightest struggle swam away unscathed. a few fish ive witnessed swimming into my BTA are;
My Flame Angel - very frequently brushes up against the anemone as he likes to swim circles around the rock the anemone is attached to. he also picks at the rockwork underneath the anemone when the anemone is fully inflated. never once has seem bothered by the sting.
Royal gramma - ive watched it swim into it on two occasions once when I first introduced him into the tank and again when I was cleaning the glass with the magnet. he very easily got out of the anemone and showed no signs of being injured
Firefish - I actually watched this one happen last night his den is right next to the anemone so if I am cleaning the tank or putting my arms in the tank he darts in, well I was grabbing some shrimp molt out of the tank and he bolted to his den missing it by 3 or 4 inches and straight into the BTA. once again it easily moved out of the anemone and was perfectly fine from there on.

so just to reiterate that this is all just my opinion based on first hand experience that BTA's stings are not powerful enough to be very predatory in nature. I have read before that BTA's in the wild seldom eat fish mostly just photosynthesize their food and on occasion catch small solid particles of various food within the water column.Nutrients are generally obtained by filter feeding using its sweeping tentacles, or through wastes and debris cleaned from the surface of its partner clownfish
I will try searching tonight when I get off work and see if I can find where I read that to back up my opinion.
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You would be correct. :thumbsup:

Many anemone's are identified as BTA's that are not BTA's. Most of the stories of BTA's eating fish either the fish are sick, or the BTA wasn't a BTA. In most cases they are condy's and yes Condy's do eat even healthy fish.
 
hotelbravo said:
BTA's do not have a powerful sting and just in my opinion I do not think a bta took a healthy chromis. ive watch multiple fish swim into my bta and brush up against him without the slightest struggle swam away unscathed. a few fish ive witnessed swimming into my BTA are;
My Flame Angel - very frequently brushes up against the anemone as he likes to swim circles around the rock the anemone is attached to. he also picks at the rockwork underneath the anemone when the anemone is fully inflated. never once has seem bothered by the sting.
Royal gramma - ive watched it swim into it on two occasions once when I first introduced him into the tank and again when I was cleaning the glass with the magnet. he very easily got out of the anemone and showed no signs of being injured
Firefish - I actually watched this one happen last night his den is right next to the anemone so if I am cleaning the tank or putting my arms in the tank he darts in, well I was grabbing some shrimp molt out of the tank and he bolted to his den missing it by 3 or 4 inches and straight into the BTA. once again it easily moved out of the anemone and was perfectly fine from there on.

so just to reiterate that this is all just my opinion based on first hand experience that BTA's stings are not powerful enough to be very predatory in nature. I have read before that BTA's in the wild seldom eat fish mostly just photosynthesize their food and on occasion catch small solid particles of various food within the water column.Nutrients are generally obtained by filter feeding using its sweeping tentacles, or through wastes and debris cleaned from the surface of its partner clownfish
I will try searching tonight when I get off work and see if I can find where I read that to back up my opinion.
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My 1" Cherub Angel plays in my two BTA's and is still doing it.
 
Mania25 said:
I've been watching this thread and find it very interesting. It's a lot darker than my nem which I got from a lfs and it was already bleached, however, I've been feeding him over the last couple of weeks as his colour is now coming back. I will cut down the feeding and then stop feeding him at all as the consensus of this thread says.
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A lot of the problems with Miguel's pictures is that he's using actinic bulbs and most pictures don't do well with them.
 
I will try tomorrow when I wake up, problem is that am a nurse at the hospital and I work 12 hrs shifts from 8-8 mon-fri so my only 2 days off would be on the weekend, my lights go from 7-5 both, from 5-10 blue and 10-7 dark
 
Hi found this thread and thought I'd post this on here. Hope you don't mind me hijacking it.... My nem looks like this. I know the have paddy's etc but it's lost its grip with its foot.. It is also slightly white and fuzzy in places on its foot

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